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Cremonese
Full name	Unione Sportiva Cremonese
Nickname(s)	Grigiorossi (Gray-reds); Tigri (Tigers)
Founded	March 24, 1903
Ground	Stadio Giovanni Zini, Cremona, Italy
Capacity	22,000
Chairman	Luigi Gualco
Home colours 　 Away colours

Unione Sportiva Cremonese is an Italian football club, based in Cremona. The club was founded in 1903. Cremonese played the 2005/2006 season in Serie B, having won Serie C1/A the previous season. However, in the 2005/2006 Serie B campaign, Cremonese came out twenty-first, being therefore relegated to Serie C1 for the next season.

Their last appearance in Serie A was in 1996. The team's colors are red and gray. Cremonese won the Anglo-Italian Cup in 1993. Some of the famous players who played for Cremonese include Gianluca Vialli, Anders Limpar, Giuseppe Favalli, John Aloisi and Enrico Chiesa.

Contents 1 History 2 Current first team squad 3 Honours 4 Notable former players 5 External links

Cremonese was in Serie A in its first season (1929-30) but entered a long period of decline, languishing in the lower leagues before the late 1970s. By 1984 they had achieved promotion to Serie A, with one-year spells in 1984-85, 1989-90 and 1991-92.

Under Luigi Simoni, Cremonese returned to Serie A in 1993. With a side containing quality in the form of defenders Luigi Gualco and Corrado Verdelli, midfield playmaker Riccardo Maspero and forwards Andrea Tentoni and Matjaž Florijančič, Cremonese held their own in Serie A with a highly respectable 10th place finish in 1993-94 but would be relegated in 1996.

Relegation resulted in the decline of the club, plummeting to Serie C2 by 2000 before achieving successive promotions back to Serie B by 2005. Giovanni Dall'Igna, another defender from the Serie A years, has since returned to the club.

As of September 6, 2006

No. Position Player GK Giorgio Bianchi GK Luca Mondini DF Michele Cremonesi DF Michele Franco DF Filippo Mattiuzzo DF Giordano Paganotto DF Fabio Pisacane DF Mariano Stendardo DF Luca Tedeschi MF Lorenzo Carotti

No. Position Player MF Luca Conean (on loan from Palermo) MF Cataldo Graziano MF Nicola Napolitano MF Federico Piazza MF Federico Smanio FW Pietro Balistreri (on loan from Palermo) FW Roberto Orlandi FW Vincenzo Pepe FW Diego Silva Reis (on loan from Chievo Verona) FW Riccardo Taddei

• Serie C: 3

1935/36 (Girone B), 1941/42 (Girone B), 1976/77 (Girone A)

• Serie C1: 1

2004/05 (Girone A)

• Serie D: 1

1967/68 (Girone B)

• IV Serie: 1

1953/54 (Girone C)

• Anglo-Italian Cup

1992-93

• Primavera TIM Cup: 1

1986/87

Italians

• Antonio Cabrini
• Paolo Castellini
• Enrico Chiesa
• Francesco Colonnese
• Giuseppe Favalli
• Marco Giandebiaggi
• Luigi Gualco
• Attilio Lombardo
• Dario Marcolin
• Riccardo Maspero
• Mauro Milanese
• Cesare Prandelli
• Michelangelo Rampulla
• Corrado Verdelli
• Gianluca Vialli
• Andrea Tentoni
• Luigi Turci

Foreigners

• John Aloisi
• Rubén Da Silva
• Gustavo Dezotti
• Matjaž Florijančič
• Anders Limpar
• Marko Perović
• Sergio Zanetti

• (Italian) Official site
• (Italian) An unofficial site

Serie C1/A
Cittadella | Cremonese | Grosseto | Ivrea | Lucchese | Massese | Monza | Novara | Padova Pavia | Pisa | Pistoiese | Pizzighettone | Pro Patria | Pro Sesto | Sangiovannese | Sassuolo | Venezia